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Posted: 12/28/2006 8:58:42 AM EDT
Whenever I go hiking I like to keep my eyes open for fossils or fossil-like rocks and geods. Here are some of the small "fossils" I found over the years.
Now my son is getting into it and has already found a few too. Big mix of shells encased in rock I found in a gravel pit in Michigan:  More:  Close up:  More:  Close up:  Normal looking rock:  Split it open and there's another rock inside:  Normal looking rock:  Split it open and there be shell fossils inside:  Close up:  Fossil of some kind of "wing-looking" thing. Not sure if it's an insect wing, a small fish, a leaf, or bird feather:  Close up:  Here's a few my son found recently:   Looks like barnacles fossilized into rock:  Close up of reverse side:  |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:00:16 AM EDT
[#1]
wow!
nice stuff. It's amazing that all of that can fossilize within 6,000 years or so! 
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:01:05 AM EDT
[#2]
Very cool! Where about in the US?
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:02:21 AM EDT
[#3]
I love stuff like this!
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:04:29 AM EDT
[#4]
Some of the shell mix ones were in Michigan. Other ones were in Arizona and California. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:18:01 AM EDT
[#5]
Nice finds!
This is a hobby I enjoy to. About 200' from my house, a guy bought the property a few years ago, and hauled a lot of dirt off of it. He has since stopped, actually we made him stop. There are tons of fossils there. Lots of shells, leafs, I found a whole fish, the impression, and the body. It has a spade tail, and is elongated like a gar, it also has dimples all over it. You can see eyes and gills. I go up there pretty often, with a hammer, scraper, and paint brush, and spend the afternoon. I find it fascinating that Alabama, as far north as Birmingham, was under water at one time. I would like to find out what the different fossils are, and from what period. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:19:57 AM EDT
[#6]
so, how'd you know to split open the normal looking rocks?
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:21:22 AM EDT
[#7]
+1 |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:21:27 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:27:12 AM EDT
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The one with the shells inside was mixed with the other shell fossil rocks. I just started cracking open rocks hoping to find more. I didn't show all the rocks I cracked open that were duds that didn't have fossils. The "rock-in-a-rock" was already cracked when I saw it on the ground while hiking. It just looked "odd" so I picked it up and pryed it open. There's probably SO much out there that we just pass by all the time. Seek and ye shall find. 
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:30:04 AM EDT
[#10]
Those were put there by God to test your faith.
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:30:59 AM EDT
[#11]
Pet rock in a rock!
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:31:12 AM EDT
[#12]
You need to come to my place if you want to see Fossils. Patty
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:33:01 AM EDT
[#13]
Suuuuurrree....  Besides, I like to look at Fossils, nothing like getting to see MarkM's Family Past. Nathan |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:33:19 AM EDT
[#14]
God wouldnt trick us like that. 
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:42:38 AM EDT
[#15]
I used to think this stuff was boring till I took a Geology course at the local college last semester. I was suprised on how interesting Geology and fossils can be.
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:49:41 AM EDT
[#16]
+2. How the Fudge did that second rock get in the first one? |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:50:01 AM EDT
[#17]
Looks like a Crinoid stem. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 9:50:15 AM EDT
[#18]
Yep. I learned more interesting stuff in Geology than in any other college course. A lot of the "how" and "why" questions I had as a kid were answered in that class. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:11:21 AM EDT
[#19]
You're a paleontologist AND a ballistic expert!? What about the "wing"? |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:30:56 AM EDT
[#20]
I'm a petroleum geologist, but I had to stare at a lot of fossils in school. I'm by no means an expert, I just recognize what looks to be a crinoid stem. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:40:16 AM EDT
[#21]
I grew up around a coal strip mine that geologists could occasionally visit.
One guy I knew would leave with a bucket of nodules. He said that while you could crack them open with a hammer, you risk damaging the rock by not getting a good cleavage. He told me that the "proper" way to split hard sedimentary rocks was to put them in a bucket of water, and freeze/thaw/freeze/thaw for a few cycles in winter. Then slightly tapping was supposed to break them open. He had some great specimines of critters that crawled into the voids in the coal, which later filled minerals. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:40:52 AM EDT
[#22]
The "wing" is fossilized fan coral sliced through at an oblique angle.
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:44:05 AM EDT
[#23]
That's cool.
You get to legally keep those findings? |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:48:03 AM EDT
[#24]
its not hard to find small fossil shells and coral in michigan, the whole state was under a shallow sea since around the divonian period.
Its the critters that ya dont find much of around here.The last two pics look a lot like a Petoskey stone to me. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 10:56:06 AM EDT
[#25]
Wow. That was not at all any of the choices I thought it might be. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 11:00:15 AM EDT
[#26]
MO has limestone just about everywhere, and along most highways where blasting occured to make the roads it's 10-40 feet high. We had lots of field days in school fossil hunting. They're everywhere in the limestone. Those are some pretty neat ones you found. Ours don't have as much variance of color, usually the fossils are the same color as the rock itself.
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Posted: 12/28/2006 11:02:14 AM EDT
[#27]
the small stuff yes. Its when ya get into the larger stuff like sting rays and vertibrates that things start to get interesting. Almost always it's "finders keepers" though
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Posted: 12/28/2006 11:03:19 AM EDT
[#28]
I don't know. Go check the location where I founds them to see if it's illegal. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 12:42:58 PM EDT
[#29]
Cool ! I let my 15 yoa son look at it, he likes.
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Posted: 12/28/2006 12:51:19 PM EDT
[#30]
Top left: Chunk of mammoth tusk. Lower Left: Sun Fish from precambrian period. Right: Kikeosaur excavated in lincoln river.
 But I cheated I bought these. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 12:52:58 PM EDT
[#31]
Oh geez! Fossils?! now you gon and done it! Jihad between Creationsts and FSM worshippers to follow in 5.....4......3......2...
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Posted: 12/28/2006 1:42:31 PM EDT
[#32]
I've got a bunch of fossils. Love 'em.
Me and a buddy spent the summer diving the Chipola River hunting them. I found an armadillo scute (volkswagon sized armadillo, cracker sized scute), a couple of sharks teeth, a huge broken molar of some kind, a tortoise spur and a bunch of other cool stuff. Diving for fossils is the bee's knees. On a hot summer day there is nothing better than breathing underwater, leisurely looking around. The Chipola is crystal clear and very shallow (4 - 6 feet in most places) so knocking back a couple of cools ones isn't too bad an idea. I'll try to post pics later. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:15:59 PM EDT
[#33]
No seriously, you need to come to my place. I live near Fossil, Oregon. We have saber tooth tigers, oredonts, pterodactyls you name it. Dinosaur eggs [thunder eggs] can be a damn nuisance. Patty |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:19:18 PM EDT
[#34]
i thought thunder eggs were volcanic? |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:25:01 PM EDT
[#35]
Neat.
Back in PA we used to crack open the rocks they dumped from the coal mines. You could find a lot of ferns and stuff. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:26:04 PM EDT
[#36]
Well I grew up calling dinosaur eggs Thunder Eggs. Everyone around here does as well. You could be right though. I just google searched them and it seems they're up in the air over whether they're volcanic or Chalcedony. We were always told they were dinosaur eggs. They're the state stone, I know that! *ETA* Here's a picture of what I'm talking about. They're all over around where I live. Of course I can see Mt. Hood & Mt. Adams from my backyard. 
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:26:41 PM EDT
[#37]
You thought right. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:28:38 PM EDT
[#38]
I should dig out my fossil collection and post pics.
I have lots of Crinoid parts. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:29:45 PM EDT
[#39]
 how big do they get in yer neck o the woods? |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:31:44 PM EDT
[#40]
Good stuff.
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:33:09 PM EDT
[#41]
We don't care about your parts what kinda fossils ya got?
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Posted: 12/28/2006 4:33:57 PM EDT
[#42]
and He created this thread to reveal one who is bound for hell |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:00:51 PM EDT
[#43]
I didn't find it, but someone did with a shovel in Montana. Who says it couldn't be you? 
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:19:37 PM EDT
[#44]
I have a pretty extensive collection of fossils I have collected over the years.
From Lake Texoma to Glenn Rose Tx, you can find large ammonites, sand dollars and sharks teeth. I found an ammonite that is 13 inches in diameter. Don't have many pics but a lot of them are in my fish tanks. Here are a few. Ammonite  Clams fused in rock  Large Ammonite here  The 13 inch ammonite lower left.  I need to take some good pics of my fossils. I have 100's of them. A bunch of good Trilobites too. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:21:02 PM EDT
[#45]
Nice Cichlids. Those are Africans right? |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:21:48 PM EDT
[#46]
WOAH! Nice... |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:23:47 PM EDT
[#47]
Cool!
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:43:45 PM EDT
[#48]
Yep. frontosas and a flowerhorn. |
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:46:36 PM EDT
[#49]
Sweet Find dude!
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Posted: 12/28/2006 5:54:40 PM EDT
[#50]
How do you know which rock(s) to split open and what'd you use to split it open?
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